The Alexandria Herald

Communication.
Amendment of the Constitution.
The substitute proposed by Mr. Dickinson, for the resolution offered in the senate by Mr. Taylor, is, in its last clause, highly objectionable, which provides "that no person who has been twice elected president of the United States shall again be eligible to that office." The decision of the house on this point I view as of the first magnitude, and am persuaded their good sense will not sanction such a proposition. Is it in the power of the most penetrating mind to dive so far into futurity as to pronounce the situation of the nation, at the expiration of a half century, or delineate the events which may be realized during the short period of a month. The revolution of a few years may involve us in unforeseen difficulties, in some political struggle-- yea! in some bloody contest. At a crisis like this (the impossibility of which prophecy personified cannot avow), the term may have expired of him, upon whom all eyes are fixed--upon whose mandates they rely for success; who possesses all the qualifications of a learned, a virtuous and able statesman, who has inspired his countrymen with full confidence in his abilities as a chief magistrate, and who has produced assurances of the immaculate purity of his principles and the love he bears to his country. Under circumstances like these, when you extend your imagination over the wide space of independent America, you perceive many men of genius; many politicians of brilliant intellect; yet you may find no where a substitute for him whose services has declared his competency. Is he then, by the constitution of his country, to be consigned to the arms of oblivion? Is this patriarch of America, when desperation is hovering over the felicity and liberty of his country, to be wrested from the service of his fellow citizens? If he who possesses the reigns of government answers not your purposes, at the expiration of his term you can reject him. If his talents, his character and principles, are not inimical to your views and wishes, secure to yourselves at least the privilege of re-electing him.